(Stress variable.) [f. quick sight + -ED2: see QUICK a. 20 b.] Having quick sight. (lit. and fig.)
1552. Huloet, Quycke syghted, oculatus.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxiii. 17. They doo nought else but dote, that wil bee wel eyed and quicksighted of themselves.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 348. A man right skilfull and deepely quick-sighted.
1677. Horneck, Gt. Law Consid., v. (1704), 253. Such writings, as acute and quick-sighted men had dispersed throughout the world.
1755. Smollett, Quix. (1803), IV. 296. The boys, who are quick-sighted as lynxes.
1772. Priestley, Inst. Relig. (1782), II. 400. They are quick-sighted to foresee.
1837. W. Irving, Capt. Bonneville, II. 93. It was dangerous … to light a fire,… where such quick-eared and quick-sighted enemies were at hand.
1870. Miss Bridgman, R. Lynne, I. xi. 165. Rose was quicker-sighted.
Hence Quicksightedness.
1652. J. Wright, trans. Camus’ Nat. Paradox, IV. 84. The Symptomes, whereby his quick-sightedness read her Disease.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, XI. x. Quick-sightedness into evil.
1869. J. Martineau, Ess., II. 400. The mere quick-sightedness of a pilot in a strange sea.
